# cigarro
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [siˈɣa.ru]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [siˈɣa.ro]

### Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)
* Alternative form of cigar
* (colloquial) cigarette
    Synonyms: cigarret, cigarreta

### Further reading

* “cigarro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “cigarro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Interlingua
### Noun

cigarro (plural cigarros)
* cigar

#### Related terms

* cigarretta

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.hu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.hu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.χu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /siˈɡa.ʁo/ [siˈɡa.ho]
* (Portugal) IPA: /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɣa.ʁu]
* Rhymes: -aʁu
* Hyphenation: ci‧gar‧ro

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

#### Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)
* cigarette

##### Derived terms

* cigarreiro
* cigarrinho
* cigarro eletrônico

##### Related terms

* cigarrilha

##### Descendants

* Kabuverdianu: sigaru
* → Tetum: sigaru

### Etymology 2

From cigarra.

#### Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)
* (Madeira) locust

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

cigarro
* first-person singular present indicative of cigarrar

### References

* ↑ “cigarro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “cigarro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain, or from a Mayan language, compare Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sik'ar (“to smoke”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /θiˈɡaro/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ro]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈɡaro/ [siˈɣ̞a.ro]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aro
* Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rro

### Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)
* cigar
    Synonym: puro
* cigarette

#### Derived terms

* cigarrillo (diminutive)
* cigarrito (diminutive)
* cigarro de papel

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: cigar, cigarro
* → Danish: cigar
* → English: cigar
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: सिगार (sigār)
    Urdu: سگار (sigār)
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਗਾਰ (sigār)
    Shahmukhi script: سگار (sigār)
** → Thai: ซิการ์ (sí-gâa)
** → Welsh: sigâr
** → Yoruba: sìgá
* → French: cigare
** → Dutch: sigaar
** → German: Cigarr (obsolete)
** → Russian: сигара (sigara)
*** → Armenian: սիգար (sigar)
* → German: Cigarro (obsolete)
** ⇒ German: Zigarre (via the plural)
* → Estonian: sigar
* → Faroese: sigar
* → Italian: sigaro
* → Norwegian Bokmål: sigar
* → Ottoman Turkish: سیغاره (sigara)
** Turkish: sigara
* → Portuguese: cigarro
* → Sicilian: sicarru

### References

* ↑ Roberto Ignacio Díaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature (2002), page 169
* ↑ Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish (2007, edited by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries), pages 67-68

### Further reading

* “cigarro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10